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Methane Emissions:

Media Advisory: New Report Shows Industry-Operated Methane Monitors Miss Nearly All ...
Oil Change International
Almost 40% of US gas is “certified” by third-party companies, allowing producers to claim reduced methane pollution. The problem?

'Blindspot' over methane emissions put dairy and beef sectors at risk, say investors | Reuters
Reuters
Methane is a potent greenhouses gas, with 80 times the warming power of CO2 during the first 20 years it enters the atmosphere. But because it's ...
    
Biden-Harris Administration Announces National Strategy to Reduce Food Loss and Waste ... - USDA
USDA
Joint efforts will reduce waste, increase recycling of organics, reduce climate pollution, save families and businesses money, and support a ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Extent of global decarbonization of the power sector through energy policies and ... - Nature
Nature
The coverage of policy types includes non-price-based regulatory and planning measures, price-based economic incentives, renewable energy and ...

Driving America's Decarbonization Journey - The EV Report
The EV Report
Impact of Transportation: Between 1990 and 2021, greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector increased more than any other human-based ...

Center For Green Market Activation Announces Launch As Climate Non-Profit Focused On ...
Pollution Online
It focuses on high emitting sectors of the economy where decarbonization ... The Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) is a US-based, globally ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data-Driven Decision-Making With Connected Financial and Carbon Information
Yahoo Finance
Data-Driven Decision-Making With Connected Financial and Carbon Information. SAP. Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT 4 min read. In this article: SAP.

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Companies: Making Reliable Decisions Through Verified Data
Investing.com UK
A data-driven approach can facilitate decision-making, especially when enhanced by powerful technology like AI. However, finding or creating data ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Corporate Reporting | Corporate Dow
Dow Corporate
Our reporting is prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Comprehensive Option. It's also third-party verified and ...

Contribute to the Future of Responsible Labor Practices - 3BL Media
3BL Media
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is calling on all stakeholders in North America to participate in a crucial initiative: revising and ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

How the Mental Health of Rural Americans Is Shaped by Climate Change - Non Profit News
Nonprofit Quarterly
Often overlooked in the climate crisis is the impact on rural Americans whose mental health is already at risk.

Climate change and health: a perma-polycrisis - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
For many communities, climate change is creating a state of near-permanent crisis – affecting people's health in myriad ways and undermining the ...

Climate change comes with adverse health effects, scientists say - CBS News
CBS News
A new study from JAMA Cardiology finds that extreme heat from climate change poses higher risks to heart health.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Record Energy Investments Failing to Keep World on Track for 2030 Renewables Target
Renewable Energy Magazine
Despite last year's surge of $1.8 trillion in clean energy investment, including $660 billion earmarked for renewables, investment remains below ...
 

Clean Energy Spending Will Surpass $2 Trillion This Year | Scientific American
Scientific American
"Clean energy investment is setting new records even in challenging economic conditions, highlighting the momentum behind the new global energy ...

CDP Sustainability:

From postcards to Portal: 7 key takeaways from the 2024 CDP US Workshop
CDP
3. CDP supports environmental reporting compliance. Throughout the morning, presentations focused on the rise in mandatory reporting frameworks, with ...

CDP Reports - Dow Corporate
Dow Corporate
... environmental impacts. The world's economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive ...

Corporate Reporting | Corporate Dow
Dow Corporate
CDP submissions. The world's economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive data on ..

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Should clean air and water be a fundamental human right? California voters to decide | Opinion
Sacramento Bee
In the Golden State, we pride ourselves on our future-facing environmental values and our climate leadership. ... climate crisis that negatively impacts ...

THOMPSON, AGUIAR-CURRY HONOR 2024 STUDENT LEADERSHIP COUNCIL GRADUATES
Representative Mike Thompson | - House.gov
... climate change. Rep ... Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Assembly Majority Leader ... California's Fourth Congressional District or California's ...

Impact Investing:

The Untapped Market for Impact Investing in Ukraine - CSIS
CSIS
International aid has sustained Ukraine during wartime, but private investment is crucial for long-term reconstruction. Impact investing is ...

Regenerative Visions For A Small Planet: Family Offices & Impact - Forbes
Forbes
Impact investing continues to grow and evolve, driven by the next generation of wealth owners who desire to generate positive social and ...

Can investors safeguard a company's impact mission?
Impact Investor
Can you trust investors who buy an impact-driven company to safeguard that mission? Social entrepreneur and impact investor Willemijn Verloop ...

Energy Storage

Vital role of battery energy storage showcased at Banbridge event
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
A successful information session has taken place at a new Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) site in Banbridge, bringing key stakeholders ...

Grid-forming technology and its role in the energy transition
Energy-Storage.News
Norway-headquartered renewable energy company Scatec will add 28.6MW of solar PV and 19.2MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to projects in ...

My Opinion: Energy Storage, Part 2 - Tech Briefs
Tech Briefs
There is therefore a detailed discussion of how to best provide thermal energy to buildings using renewable energy with non-lithium storage. The ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

FAQ: 5 things to know about weather forecasts and climate change - NPR
NPR
Hurricane Ian passes over western Cuba in 2022, as captured by a U.S. weather satellite. Climate change is causing more extreme weather ...

These satellites let you track natural disasters and environmental changes - Fast Company
Fast Company
Here's a quick tour of where you can find satellite images, plus some free, fairly simple tools that anyone can use to create time-lapse ... 

NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn't Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
NASA
Climate Change · Earth, Our Planet · Earth Science in Action · Earth ... NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn't Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss. The ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Carrier's Ambitious Climate and Net Zero Targets Validated by the Science Based Target Initiative
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, today announced its ambitious ...

The Science-Based Targets initiative validates Orange's reducing greenhouse gas emissions targets
TelecomTV
The Group has gained a clear insight into its carbon footprint, making substantial commitments within and outside France to reduce its emissions and ...

Science Based Targets Initiative Validates RWS's Commitment to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Business Wire
RWS, a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announces that its near-term ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Coastal ecosystems less resilient to climate change stressors | kgw.com
KGW
Environment. 'There are winners and losers': OSU study finds low resilience to climate stressors among some Oregon coast ecosystems. The study ...

Prospects Appear to Dim for Climate Change Legislation - Natural Gas Intelligence
Natural Gas Intelligence
"I am opposed to the House-passed cap and trade legislation, which in my view picks winners and losers and places a disproportionate share of the ...

'Dynamic Planet' delves into the people and animals on the front lines of climate change
Yahoo
The rules that dictated stability have been rewritten, with new climate change winners and losers exposed. Although the scale of the problem can ...

Microgrids:

Coding Better Microgrids | T&D World
T&D World
Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineers Rachid Darbali-Zamora, front, and Lee Raskin test. Microgrids. Coding Better Microgrids. June 13, ...

Scale Microgrids, Captona Close Financing on Community Solar, Microgrid Portfolio Coast to Coast
Microgrid Knowledge
Scale Microgrids Chief Investment Officer Julian' Torres said that the community solar assets create more optionality and value for microgrid ...

Commercial EV Charging Report: Microgrids Provide Clear Path to Fleet Electrification
Microgrid Knowledge
This is the second annual collaboration between Xendee and EBM, which is the parent company of Microgrid Knowledge. EV sales are clearly accelerating ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Community Health Assessment now open through November | ParkRecord.com
Park Record
The health assessment is a tool used to determine the status, needs, resources and issues within an area to improve the efficiency of services. Nancy ...

National Prevalence of Social Risk Factors at Federally Qualified Health Centers
JAMA Network
Social risk screening and response equity: assessment by race, ethnicity, and language in community health centers.  Am J Prev Med. 2023;65(2): ...

Community Health Needs Assessment Survey Open - The Outer Banks Voice
The Outer Banks Voice
Barnhill Building Group has been selected as the Construction Manager @ Risk by the College of the Albemarle and is seeking to pre-qualify ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Asia in Focus: ESG Investing and the Business and Human Rights Agenda
United Nations Development Programme
ESG investment rests on the recognition that environmental, social and corporate governance issues shape companies' risks and opportunities, ...

Regenerative Visions For A Small Planet: Family Offices & Impact - Forbes
Forbes
Impact investing continues to grow and evolve, driven by the next generation of wealth owners who desire to generate positive social and ...

Challenges and opportunities: Navigating the complex landscape of ESG investing
The Financial Express
ESG investing represents a transformative shift in the investment landscape. By committing to transparency, integrity, and collaboration, investors ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Market to Surge at 11.8% CAGR by 2031
Yahoo Finance
Westford, USA, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SkyQuest projects that the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Market will attain a value of ...

DOE Identifies 2.4B Metric Tons of CO2 Storage Capacity - Natural Gas Intelligence
Natural Gas Intelligence
Capturing CO2 emissions from large power and industrial plants and putting it to beneficial use or storing it in deep geologic formations "is a key ...

Call for nomination of experts to Scoping Meeting for Methodology Report on Carbon ... - IPCC
IPCC
Bioenergy carbon capture and storage 3. Carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage; Concrete carbonation; Enhanced weathering; Ocean alkalinity ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Importance of research in maintaining a sustainable healthcare system
The European Sting
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 required the emergence of innovative health and prevention technologies in the face of a biological ...

US job market resembling pre-pandemic environment, Yellen says | Reuters
Reuters
US job market resembling pre-pandemic environment, Yellen says. By Reuters. June 13, 20246:37 AM PDTUpdated 38 min ago.

Take Charge of Sweeping Environmental Changes | Cleaning & Maintenance Management
Cleaning & Maintenance Management
Driving sustainability ambitions in the floor care industry ... Tags Environment and Sustainability ... Cleaning for Coronavirus · Get Your CMM Magazine ...

Sustainability Investing: 

What I'm Telling My Clients About Sustainable Investing - Investopedia
Investopedia
Sustainable funds often avoid fossil fuel investments, though performance may temporarily lag during periods of rising oil prices. There's no "perfect ...

Solutions to avoid loss of environmental, social and governance investment - Mongabay
Mongabay
Task forces have reviewed existing sustainability initiatives and repackaged their environmental ... investing, while linking them to an expanded ...

Exploring the link between sustainable investments and financial returns
The Business Times
Incorporating sustainability factors into investment decisions may steer capital towards companies with the potential to thrive in future ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering study: Shipping regulation made climate change worse - CNBC
CNBC
The rule change may help to explain why last year's record-breaking heat was so extreme, a team of scientists said in a recent paper.

The science and ethics of solar geoengineering
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
... geoengineering as a last-ditch effort to protect Earth from dangerous warming. At a June 10 discussion held during Harvard Climate Action Week ...

EDF tight lipped about new geoengineering research program - E&E News by POLITICO
E&E News
In theory, solar geoengineering involves spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere or increasing the reflectivity of clouds over the oceans.

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bond Funds Attract Sustainable Flows - Morningstar
Morningstar
'Light green' strategies pulled in investor money in 2024, whereas 'dark green' or article 9 funds continued to see outflows.

The Impact ETF - Artesian Launches Green Bond Fund on the Nasdaq - KXAN
KXAN
Artesian celebrating the launch of the Carbon Collective Short Duration Green Bond Fund in Times Square, New York. From Left: Christine Chang, ...

Peab Issues $141 Million in Green Bonds to Fund Green Buildings, Clean Transportation ...
ESG News
Peab issued $141M in green bonds to fund its climate goals in green buildings, clean transport, and eco-efficient production.

Low Carbon Funds:

BlackRock Launches New Suite of ETFs Investing in Companies Leading Low Carbon Transition
ESG Today
Investment giant BlackRock announced today the launch of iShares MSCI Climate Transition Aware UCITS ETFs, a new suite of 5 exchange traded funds ...

New low-carbon transition financing instrument to be launched in Flanders | Tax Alerts
Deloitte
On 31 May 2024, the Flemish government decided to launch a new funding initiative for industries in the Flanders region of Belgium, ...

Blackrock Launches Five New iShares Msci Climate Transition Aware UCITS ETFs
Funds Society
... low-carbon economy. It focuses on investing in companies based on their ... The exclusions of the fund range comply with the EU Climate Transition ...